Liberals lack transparency with big-ticket summer spending announcements, critics say

Tens of billions of dollars' worth of announcements by the Liberal government this summer has critics and analysts calling out a lack of detail on Ottawa's spending plans.

Critics call out Liberals for big-ticket spending outside budget framework  Toronto Star

The federal government may have spent upwards of $40 billion beyond what it laid out in its spring economic statement and needs to be more transparent about its books, according to a recent report by Desjardins deputy chief economist Randall Bartlett.

'I've been involved in budgets since 1977, and I've never seen such a lack of transparency,' said Don Drummond, the former chief economist at TD Bank